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Get the help you need to achieve a stronger lower body. Lower Body Training is a comprehensive guide containing the most up-to-date, scientifically proven strategies for increasing lower body size, strength, and power. Jason Brown, a program design expert who has worked with CrossFit affiliates and strength and conditioning facilities around the world, shares his innovative programs for a variety of different training goals, ranging from increased lower body size and strength to improved athletic performance.Lower Body Training offers dozens of options for developing all the muscles of the lower body. The exercises are organized by the movement patterns they target - quad dominant, hip dominant, isolation, and plyometric - and feature variations based on the equipment you have available without sacrificing results.
About the Author
Jason Brown earned his MFA from Cornell University, and he was a Stegner Fellow and Truman Capote Fellow at Stanford University, where he taught as a Jones Lecturer. He has received fellowships from the Yaddo and Macdowell colonies and from the Saltonsall Foundation. He taught for many years in the MFA program at the University of Arizona and now teaches in the MFA program at the University of Oregon. He has published two books of short stories, Driving the Heart and Other Stories (Norton/Random House) and Why the Devil Chose New England For His Work (Open City/Grove Atlantic) . His stories have won several awards and appeared in Best American Short Stories, The Atlantic, Harper's, TriQuarterly and other magazines and anthologies. Several of his stories have been performed as part of NPR's Selected Shorts, and his collection Why The Devil Chose New England For His Work was chosen as a summer reading pick by National Public Radio. His third collection of stories entitled A Faithful But Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed. Stories will be published in the fall of 2019. Stories from the new collection have appeared or will appear in Southern Review, Prairie Schooner (winning their editor's prize and receiving special mention in the back of Best American Short Stories) , Electric Literature, Bellevue Review, Dalhousie Review and the Editor's Prize from the Missouri Review.
